This is my first geocache (I hope out of many in the future) and I dedicate it to my oldest and dearest friend, who gave me the Geocaching Bug a year ago! Today is her birthday and I couldn't think of a better present to give her. She now has her own geocache.
Here and there in Haifa, statues have been placed and this one is dedicated to Moshe Shpirovski, a "pioneer" who helped build various neighborhoods on the Carmel including the neighborhood of Vardiya where the statue is placed. He himself lived in the 50's and 60's in Ahuza, one of the more genteel neighborhoods on the mountain.
The statue itself is a rendition of the Prophet Elijah who was associated with Mount Carmel in the Old Testament. In the statue he is going up to the heavens with a chariot of fire and pulled by horses of fire.
Don't forget to bring a pen to sign the log and happy hunting!
7 Fifty men from the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan.
8 Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.
12 Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.
(Kings II cap. 2)